COUNTY NEEDS MORE SUP­PORT

Dado has ap­pealed to hu­man­i­tar­ian or­gan­i­sa­tions and well-wishers to help ad­dress the dis­as­ter. Al­ready, he said he had been promised sup­port from the Galana Ku­lalu food security pro­ject. Dado said there have been meet­ings with the Kenya Red Cross, the Na­tional Drought Man­age­ment Author­ity and the na­tional govern­ment. He urged the state to ini­ti­ate a pro­gramme of buy­ing live­stock, as they are dy­ing in large num­bers. He was ac­com­pa­nied by county assem­bly ma­jor­ity leader Masha Boru and Garsen MCA Mah­moud Ahmed.